Lead Quality Engineer

Teaching Strategies is an edtech organization focused on early childhood education, building digital products that include curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. They are seeking a quality engineering leader to enhance their AI-first quality practices and automation.

Location: United States

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve AI-first quality engineering practices across product and platform teams.
• Develop and expand agentic engineering capabilities to automate complex workflows, quality validation, and engineering operations.
• Drive shift-left engineering practices including automation, risk-based testing, release validation, and continuous quality feedback.
• Remain hands-on with automation, validation strategies, debugging, and delivery workflows.
• Build and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks using Playwright across UI and API layers.
• Use AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to accelerate testing, validation, defect analysis, and engineering productivity.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to improve release confidence and delivery quality.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering and quality engineering background with leadership experience.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and modern automated testing practices.
• Experience building and scaling quality engineering processes in fast-moving product organizations.
• Experience using Xray for test management, traceability, and release validation.
• Strong understanding of shift-left testing, automation strategy, and engineering quality metrics.
• Experience applying AI-first and agentic development approaches to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
• Ability to balance speed, quality, maintainability, and customer impact in a high-velocity environment.
• Experience leading quality engineering teams in SaaS or cloud-native environments.
• Experience with security, performance, accessibility, and resilience testing.
• Experience improving developer productivity, platform quality, or engineering operations.
• Background in automation engineering, or product engineering leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health and wellness insurance benefits
• 401k with employer match
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
• Best in class technology equipment for every employee
• Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field